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During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Debra Kamin, Time | 04.28.2015
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An Israeli Boeing-747 returned from Nepal to Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, and among its...

By H. Gilbert Welch and Wylie Burke, Los Angeles Times | 04.27.2015
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President Obama proposes to plunk down $215 million on "precision medicine," and the National Institutes of Health and...

By Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post | 04.27.2015
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One of the national organizations that govern DNA laboratories has ordered the District’s new crime lab to immediately...

By Oscar Quine, The Independent | 04.26.2015

London – Police forces across the UK are testing technology that allows officers to analyse DNA samples in custody suites, amid...

By Society for Developmental Biology, Society for Developmental Biology | 04.24.2015

The Board of Directors of the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) and the Editors of its official journal Developmental Biology...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 04.24.2015
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In the wake of the first ever report that scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos, experts...

By Jordan Smith, The Intercept | 04.24.2015

Last week, The Washington Post revealed that in 268 trials dating back to 1972, 26 out of 28 examiners within the FBI...

By Lauren F Friedman, Business Insider | 04.23.2015

News broke on Wednesday that a team of Chinese scientists had edited the genes of human embryos for the first...